Damascus-SANA
The People’s Assembly, in its session held today, headed by Speaker Hammouda Sabbagh, continued discussing the draft law that includes the creation of vocational education within the secondary education stage and the abolition of Legislative Decree No. 13 of 1994.
The council approved a number of articles of the project, including Article 11 related to the formation of the central vocational education committees, which is concerned with proposing the educational policy of the vocational education system and setting the necessary steps for its implementation and the foundations related to the development of education and taking the necessary measures to create new professions and establishing a general system for vocational guidance and counseling and creating secondary vocational education and types of professions .
The Vocational Education Subcommittee is formed in each governorate by a decision of the Minister of Education in accordance with Article 12. It is responsible for implementing everything related to the educational policy of this education and proposing professions needed by the governorate’s regions or changing them according to the requirements of the labor market, as well as proposing the creation of vocational education secondary schools and cooperation with the business sector to train high school students professional institutions, companies, laboratories, and other bodies, and studying and processing reports received from the administrative committees in vocational high schools.
While an administrative committee is formed in each vocational high school to undertake the tasks of following up the education and training of students and developments in the labor market and their reflection on education and training in secondary school and economic establishment, supervising the entry and exit of production and maintenance requirements to and from high school, proposing granting incentive rewards to teachers and students in addition to the production and financial plan for high school and determining Indicative prices for manufactured products in light of the specifications of the materials and services included in the production processes in accordance with the requirements of Article 13.
The Minister of State for People’s Assembly Affairs Abdullah Abdullah presented the decisions and measures taken by the Council of Ministers in its last session related to service and living issues, while a number of members demanded a reversal of the decision to impose the experimental educational curriculum “National Series of Curriculums for the English and French Languages” in several governorates, calling for Securing textbooks and criticizing the intensity of the currently implemented educational curricula because it causes suffering and exhaustion for students and their families.
Some members called for a meeting between the government and industrialists to overcome difficulties, remove obstacles in front of their industrial facilities, especially pharmaceuticals, find solutions to their problems, encourage them to continue to stay and produce, and prevent them from having to search for foreign markets and increase the number of Syrian refrigeration units for trade to store citrus and then offer them at reasonable prices for citizens.
A number of members pointed to the necessity of demonstrating the validity of the offer of a number of industrial public sector facilities for partnership with the private sector, evaluating decisions to raise prices and costs of electricity and fuel and their repercussions on the agricultural and industrial sectors, securing fuel oil for mass transit buses, and supplying the countryside with more buses to reduce the suffering of teachers and employees moving to their schools and jobs. They wondered about the adequacy of the 50 liters of diesel fuel for home heating, and demanded that this mechanism be dispensed with, and instead allow citizens to buy diesel at the industrial or cost price.
In response to the interventions regarding the educational sector, the Minister of Education, Dr. Darem Tabbaa, explained that the process of educating and caring for each student annually costs approximately one million pounds, pointing in another context to the continuation of work to remedy the shortage of teaching staff and supplies.
Minister Tabbaa pointed to the correctness of what a number of council members said about the intensity of school educational curricula and its goal is to refine the skills and talents of students with the latest educational methods and develop their abilities and knowledge, indicating that the most outstanding students at the country level are those who have learned in public schools.
The Minister of Education pointed out that there is a new administration for the General Organization for Books and Publications that is working to continue securing books for modern educational curricula, but there are cases of corruption and theft in some school book warehouses, and whoever is proven to be involved in it will take legal measures against him.
The session was adjourned to 11 a.m. tomorrow, Thursday.
